The Web Proxy filter failed to bind its socket to .... or why you can't have Virtual Server & ISA 2006 on the same box

I installed ISA 2006 on a new firewall box. Or rather reinstalled, since I had stuck the trial version on because I NEEDED IT UP NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Of course I had stuck on the trial version and then let it expire so our website was suddenly unavailable. My cohort Patrick spent many frurstrating hours trying to get SOMEONE at MSoft to give us a license key so we could reactivate it.

 

Meanwhile....

 

I downloaded the MSoft Virtual Server for Windows 2003 R2, whipped it on the box, installed the trial version of ISA 2006 (AGAIN), and got it up and running.

 

Don't try this at home. I mean you, Lee.

 

Anyway, that was dandy and finally, much later, Patrick finally got ahold of someone who let him know that the license key was already in the product that we download via EA.

 

Ahhhhh

 

So today I decide to install ISA 2006 for real, and shut down the Virtual Server. I do so, and discover that I no longer have a site. My web server is groovy, but my firewall is throwing hissy fits. Egads, horror in the land.

 

So I restart the Virtual server, shutting down the ISA 2006, and now IT does not work. Shut down the Virtual Server and try again with the real thing.

 

hmmm

 

A wee bit o troubleshooting later I figure out that the network cable is bad (although it DID appear to work on the screen, it just couldn't GET anywhere).

 

Problem one solved.

 

Now I reboot it (why not) and see the error above. Thank the heavens for Google - turns out that ISA 2006 refuses to run if you have IIS installed. Virtual Server (for administration) requires IIS to be installed. Hence the bloody battle.

 

Deinstall Virtual Server. Deinstall IIS.

 

*boom*

 

it is working and I am going home!